By: Q. Joan Xu, Assistant Professor, Data Services and Business Librarian

In the new year, the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) continues to provide data users with new resources, including training and scholarship opportunities.

ICPSR Data Fair at Love Data Week

ICPSR hosts a virtual conference, the Data Fair, every other year. This year, the ICPSR Data Fair @ Love Data Week will include 10+ webinars and activities, including:

• Feb 9, 12 p.m. ET: Data Brunch Live! Welcome to the Data Fair
• Feb 9, 2 p.m. ET: ICPSR Data Communication Scholarship
• Feb 10, 1 p.m. ET: Getting Better All the Time: Metadata Enhancements in the ICPSR Catalog
• Feb 10, 3 p.m. ET: Live Demo: Data Fair Edition
• Feb 11, 12 p.m. ET: Data Sharing for Real-World and Non-Primary Data Sources
• Feb 11, 1 p.m. ET: DataLumos: An Update on the Crowd-sourced Repository for Valuable Government Data
• Feb 11, 2 p.m. ET: NACDA Study Highlight – The Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging (VETSA)
• Feb 11, 3 p.m. ET: ICPSR Summer Program: For the Love of Research Methods!
• Feb 12, 12 pm ET: DSDR Marks the Spot: Finding Quality Population Health Data Resources
• Feb 12, 1 p.m. ET: Lay All Your Love on Metadata: A New API for Discovery
• Feb 12, 2 p.m. ET: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data Privacy
• Feb 13, 12 p.m. ET: Data-Savvy Teaching Office Hours: Data Fair Edition
• Feb 13, 2 p.m. ET: Navigating the New North: Data Insights About the Changing Canadian Consumer Patterns

ICPSR Scholarships

Data Communication Scholarship

The ICPSR Data Communication Scholarship is open to undergraduate and graduate students. This annual competition encourages participants to produce a dynamic, three-minute video that creatively showcases their data literacy by exploring ICPSR data, selecting a study of interest, and communicating its key features, significance, and potential uses.

Data Communication Scholarship submissions are due on February 23. To learn more, you can join an online webinar, “ICPSR Data Communication Scholarship,” on February 9 at 2 pm.

ICPSR Summer Program and Scholarships

The ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods is a training program offering online and in–person courses each summer. Courses include Machine Learning, Race, Ethnicity, and Quantitative Methodology, Multilevel Models, and more.

The Summer Program offers over $150,000 in scholarships, which is open to students, faculty, and researchers. The scholarships cover the registration fee for their General Sessions, a comprehensive methods training program comprising classes in statistics, regression analysis, machine learning, network analysis, longitudinal analysis, time series analysis, formal models, data visualization, and more.

This year, all ICPSR scholarship application forms and materials (including letters of recommendation) are due on Sunday, March 1, 11:59 pm. To learn more, you can join an online webinar, “ICPSR Summer Program: For the Love of Research Methods,” on February 11 at 3 pm.